Over the years we have had members who ask us to follow some link and vote for them so they could win fly rods. We have supported many good causes from the forum also and still do

Now I could use your help, I know that not everyone can afford to travel to a place like Alaska. I know that if you did come not everyone can afford to hire a guide.

What you can do without spending a dime is help me find those people who are coming and will hire someone.

What I need is for as many people as possible to use the link that is in my signature here and visit my web site. Look around, read the blog posts, maybe even leave a comment on them.

What this will do is to elevate my traffic statistics with Google. The more traffic, the longer those people spend browsing the site............. My page moves up in the results list when people are searching with words like Alaska - fly fishing - guide

Get what I mean? I am writing new posts every day trying to keep the few returning visitors I have and you may find the site interesting. If you think of it just stop by when things are dead on our threads here, then of course get back here to the forum but when it comes to site visits right now, the more, the merrier.

For those of you who have not done so, take a look, it's an interesting site and well worth the time. Email a link to your friends, discuss it with someone on line, get a buzz going.
Think of it as a small way of saying thanks to Ard for the hours he puts into the forums. It's thanks well deserved.

Happy to help Ard. Have you thought about linking your blog to Twitter. I am a moderator on a UK fly fishing forum and when I tweet posts from it, the statistics always increase. Social media is definitely the best way to get the message out there. Just a thought

Happy to help Ard. Have you thought about linking your blog to Twitter. I am a moderator on a UK fly fishing forum and when I tweet posts from it, the statistics always increase. Social media is definitely the best way to get the message out there. Just a thought

+1 to the social media idea, but add Facebook to that. Many 'old timers' (people with money) don't bother with Twitter at all. If you're going to use both just 'cut and paste' from one to the other to save a lot of putzing around. Facebook we use as that's were you find a heck of a lot of other fishermen/women.